Lissa's 4th wild born baby

Ex Orphan Lissa, born in l986, was a poaching victim of the three decades commonly known as "The Poaching Holcaust" which followed the transfer and subsequent death of David Sheldrick, the Founder Warden of Tsavo East National Park. This orphan who was over two years old at the time and handed directly into the custody and care of the then elephant Matriarch, "Eleanor", who "mothered" all the orphans that were given to her aged two and older, including Ex Nairobi Nursery survivors. Lissa joined the wild in the 1990's and has since given birth to four wild born calves. And so, the tragic little orphan from Mackinnon Road rescued during the infamous Poaching Holocaust, who came in as a bag of bones with a mis-shapen hind leg, at 25 years old is now a very successful wild elephant mother of four wild-born young, 2 girls and 2 boys, and as such one of the Trust's proudest success stories.

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